University Heights Community Center wins grant

The voting is over and the University Heights Community Center is a big winner in the 2010 Partners in Preservation initiative. The center will receive a grant of $60,000 to repair 255 original wood windows. American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation decided to award $5000 to the other contestants who didn’t receive enough votes, including the Jacobsen Observatory on the UW campus. You can see the entire list of awards here.